It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
